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Prevuius group

Group No. 45


Letter

C. Tabu

Group No.

C500 – C549

Group name

Tabu: touching

Description

C510. Tabu: touching tree (plant). Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "arbres". – Jewish: Neuman; Chatham Islands: Beckwith Myth 19, Notes 10, 11, 12.
 
C513.1. Tabu: cutting branches of tree. Jewish: Neuman.
 
C518. Tabu: cutting down tree. Jewish: Neuman; Maori: Clark 95; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z – G 3/1174).
 
C526. Tabu: touching sacred mountain. Jewish: Neuman.
 
C531. Tabu: touching with iron. *MacCulloch Childhood 339; Hartland Science 163f.; Fb "jærn" II 61a. – Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 93.
 
C541. Tabu: contact with the dead. Jewish: *Neuman; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 341, 452, Rasmussen III 104.
 
C541.6. Tabu: embalming. Jewish: Neuman.

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